ARE WE REALLY GOING TO DO THIS AGAIN?
End Daylight Savings Time NOW!
I think about this song a lot because it was released in November 2020. That was the year my ex-husband and I were planning to make the long move back to New York after having made the long move from New York to Las Vegas only a year and a half before. "Only Time" was constantly playing on the loudspeakers of every store I went into and I was constantly crying every single time it played. We had convinced my 80+ year old dad to move into our Las Vegas community since he had been lost and desolate in his Long Island home ever since my mom died in 1996. He loved Vegas. He lived on a golf course and played 18 holes a day (except for Sundays when he went to church to thank God for the 6 days he was able to do that.) He really did love his perfect little home but I remember him asking me before he made that huge move, "How do I know you won't move back to New York after I move there?" I swore that wouldn't happen. And yet, it did. I cried…I wept…every single time I heard this song. Vegas was perfect for my Dad, but we deserted him after promising not to.
I am sick of this. The days already go by fast enough and the older you get the faster they go. So now…once again an entire hour is being stolen from my day. From my life! Just like that!
It isn't funny.
It's ridiculous.
I am looking at the clock right this minute. It is 3:39 PM. Tomorrow, magically, at this EXACT SAME TIME, it is going to be 4:39 PM. And "just like that" an entire hour of my day disappeared! In the blink of an eye. Tomorrow we will only have 23 hours in our day and maybe if you're young one single hour doesn't mean a lot to you. When you get old, every second counts.
Guess what? Summer days always stay lighter longer. You don't need to change your clocks in order to make the days stay lighter longer. Summer days are always LONGER. Leave our clocks alone!
https://www.weather2travel.com/daylight-hours/
If you normally get up at 4:30 AM in order to get to your job by 6:00 AM you will now be getting up at 3:30 AM even though your clock lies to you. Your body knows though. This is an extraordinary stress on your circadian rhythm. How can you possibly dismiss your circadian rhythm?
Since I am old and jobless I have nowhere I MUST be at 6:00 AM but I do wake up automatically at that time. Every single day. Sometimes earlier. And I start the coffee, let the dogs out, say my prayers, catch up on the endless news and then the morning flies by. TOMORROW, it will be 7:00 AM. I am not prepared for this.
Why are you torturing me?
The dogs won't care because they KNOW what time it really is.
There are 2 states in our country that have dissented from Daylight Savings Time: Arizona and Hawaii.
When I lived in Vegas those Hoover Dam clocks blew my mind. Sometimes they are same time. But when Daylight Savings Time kicks in they are not.
https://time.com/6898948/daylight-saving-time-march-2024-what-to-know/
By the way. I always call the Hoover Dam the damn dam because every time we had visitors they wanted to go there. It wasn't a long drive but after 9/11? It was pretty scary. Very beautiful though.
ANYWAY.
Can we please stop this already?
IT'S TIME.
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